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Movandi Works with Keysight Technologies to Advance Millimeter Wave Technology and Test Capabilities

5G and mmWave Represent the Most Disruptive Generational Change in Networks

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., February 8, 2018 – Movandi, a venture-backed startup with a mission to revolutionize millimeter wave networks, today announced its collaboration with Keysight Technologies to test and validate Movandi’s BeamX technology and support optimizing Keysight’s over the air (OTA) test systems. Movandi’s leading Millimeter Wave (mmWave) technology is a scalable RF front-end solution that integrates RF, antenna, beamforming, and control algorithms into a modular 5G millimeter wave solution intended for Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), small cell, and base station applications. The superior performance of Movandi’s RFIC, phased array antenna, and beamforming techniques enable the next generation of 5G and multi-gigabit connectivity that is driving new applications.

Because higher performance of the optimized RFIC and antenna solutions require leading edge equipment to support the development process, Movandi will rely on Keysight for its leading-edge testing and measurement tools in the development, qualification, and manufacturing of mmWave RF and antenna technologies. Movandi will also provide antenna arrays to Keysight to support the optimization and streamlining the process of performing OTA testing.

“We are excited to work together to advance the 5G market and solve the challenges at every step in the development and deployment process,” said Reza Rofougaran, CTO and Co-CEO, Movandi. “Solving the testing challenges will help uncover the huge potential offered by much greater bandwidth, spatial reuse, and frequency reuse.”

Beamforming introduces new challenges to effectively evaluate antenna performance and Movandi was able to verify shifting of antenna beams with the use of Keysight signal generators, oscilloscopes, and vector signal analyzer software by analyzing the magnitude and phase shift between antenna channels. 5G and mmWave represent the most disruptive generational change in cellular networks since the movement to digital. Everything is hard- higher frequencies, ill-behaved propagation, beamforming, and over-the-air testing. This partnership will go a long way in developing and testing mmWave technology.

“We are pleased to be enabling startups like Movandi, who are innovating to provide solutions that make 5G possible,” said Kailash Narayanan, Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Device and Operators group, Keysight Technologies. “Tightly coupled integration of the elements from baseband to RF to air interface present new opportunities that require our testing solutions to deliver the validation needed for Movandi’s next-gen technologies.”

Movandi is a venture-backed startup, formed by some of today’s top leaders in wireless communications. Having pioneered the integration of RF and digital in standard bulk CMOS for numerous wireless standards, their focus now is to reinvent multi-gigabit millimeter wave solutions for fixed and mobile networks. Today’s high frequency networks are filled with a myriad of technical challenges. Movandi’s innovative RF front-end technology provides the foundation for unlocking the potential of high frequency wireless communications, opening numerous new market opportunities and applications. www.movandi.com

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology company that helps its engineering, enterprise and service provider customers accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight’s solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at a lower cost with offerings from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of $3.2 B in fiscal year 2017. In April 2017, Keysight acquired Ixia, a leader in network test, visibility, and security. More information is available at www.keysight.com.